Map

The Map:




The third icon is the "Map". This will give you an overview of your city with other cities around you.



1. Coordinates: The default coordinate is of your city. You can also type in coordinates to check the location if that is far away from your city. The "Location Record" is a list of the coordinates you recorded.








2. Blue city: There are lots of this blue cities through out the map. Accordingly, it is for the Emperor's road event.






3. Neighboring city: by default, the city at the middle of the map is your city. Other cities are your neighbors. When you click on city, this will show up on the right side of the screen. It shows the information of that city. It also contains a number of action button. First is "Deploy " which sends troops to that city, second is "Transport Resources" which will transport resources to that city, "Focus on location" will put that city in the middle of the map and "Record Location" that will record the coordinates.


4, 5 , 6. Oasis: Oasis can give additional resource output. You need a career center to be able to occupy one. the higher the level, the more oasis you can occupy. Base on the image on the left, the particular oasis gives Grain and Iron 25%. Other oasis gives gives Wood 25%, 50%; Iron +25%; Stone +25%, Grain +25%; Grain and Wood +25%. And before you can occupy the oasis, you have to defeat the settlers(army). different oasis have different army types and numbers. You need a large army to be able to defeat them. believe me, a hundred is not enough.




7. Guarded Space: These are guarded spaces all through out the map. When you defeat the army, you can build a city there.. provided you already have pioneers. You need a large army to be able to defeat them.








8. Cursor; an in-game cursor that will let you explore the map by pressing the arrows